This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tty/serial: at91: fix hardware handshake on Atmel platforms
to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tty-serial-at91-fix-hardware-handshake-on-atmel-platforms.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9bcffe7575b721d7b6d9b3090fe18809d9806e78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:04:06 +0200
Subject: tty/serial: at91: fix hardware handshake on Atmel platforms
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From: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 9bcffe7575b721d7b6d9b3090fe18809d9806e78 upstream.
After commit 1cf6e8fc8341 ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management
when hardware handshake is enabled"), the hardware handshake wasn't
functional anymore on Atmel platforms (beside SAMA5D2).
To understand why, one has to understand the flag ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS
first:
Before commit 1cf6e8fc8341 ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management
when hardware handshake is enabled"), this flag was never set.
Thus, the CTS/RTS where only handled by serial_core (and everything
worked just fine).
This commit introduced the use of the ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag,
enabling it for all boards when the user space enables flow control.
When the ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS is set, the Atmel USART controller
handles a part of the flow control job:
- disable the transmitter when the CTS pin gets high.
- drive the RTS pin high when the DMA buffer transfer is completed or
PDC RX buffer full or RX FIFO is beyond threshold. (depending on the
controller version).
NB: This feature is *not* mandatory for the flow control to work.
(Nevertheless, it's very useful if low latencies are needed.)
Now, the specifics of the ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag:
- For platforms with DMAC and no FIFOs (sam9x25, sam9x35, sama5D3,
sama5D4, sam9g15, sam9g25, sam9g35)* this feature simply doesn't work.
( source: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/7/598 )
Tested it on sam9g35, the RTS pins always stays up, even when RXEN=1
or a new DMA transfer descriptor is set.
=> ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS must not be used for those platforms
- For platforms with a PDC (sam926{0,1,3}, sam9g10, sam9g20, sam9g45,
sam9g46)*, there's another kind of problem. Once the flag
ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS is set, the RTS pin can't be driven anymore via
RTSEN/RTSDIS in USART Control Register. The RTS pin can only be driven
by enabling/disabling the receiver or setting RCR=RNCR=0 in the PDC
(Receive (Next) Counter Register).
=> Doing this is beyond the scope of this patch and could add other
bugs, so the original (and working) behaviour should be set for those
platforms (meaning ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag should be unset).
- For platforms with a FIFO (sama5d2)*, the RTS pin is driven according
to the RX FIFO thresholds, and can be also driven by RTSEN/RTSDIS in
USART Control Register. No problem here.
(This was the use case of commit 1cf6e8fc8341 ("tty/serial: at91: fix
RTS line management when hardware handshake is enabled"))
NB: If the CTS pin declared as a GPIO in the DTS, (for instance
cts-gpios = <&pioA PIN_PB31 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>), the transmitter will be
disabled.
=> ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag can be set for this platform ONLY IF the
CTS pin is not a GPIO.
So, the only case when ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS can be enabled is when
(atmel_use_fifo(port) &&
!mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod(atmel_port->gpios, UART_GPIO_CTS))
Tested on all Atmel USART controller flavours:
AT91SAM9G35-CM (DMAC flavour), AT91SAM9G20-EK (PDC flavour),
SAMA5D2xplained (FIFO flavour).
* the list may not be exhaustive
Fixes: 1cf6e8fc8341 ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management when hardware handshake is enabled")
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx: adapt to 4.4.x kernel for stable by adding
the atmel_port variable declaration which was missing]
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -2026,6 +2026,7 @@ static void atmel_serial_pm(struct uart_
static void atmel_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termios,
struct ktermios *old)
{
+ struct atmel_uart_port *atmel_port = to_atmel_uart_port(port);
unsigned long flags;
unsigned int old_mode, mode, imr, quot, baud;
@@ -2129,11 +2130,29 @@ static void atmel_set_termios(struct uar
mode |= ATMEL_US_USMODE_RS485;
} else if (termios->c_cflag & CRTSCTS) {
/* RS232 with hardware handshake (RTS/CTS) */
- if (atmel_use_dma_rx(port) && !atmel_use_fifo(port)) {
- dev_info(port->dev, "not enabling hardware flow control because DMA is used");
- termios->c_cflag &= ~CRTSCTS;
- } else {
+ if (atmel_use_fifo(port) &&
+ !mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod(atmel_port->gpios, UART_GPIO_CTS)) {
+ /*
+ * with ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS set, the controller will
+ * be able to drive the RTS pin high/low when the RX
+ * FIFO is above RXFTHRES/below RXFTHRES2.
+ * It will also disable the transmitter when the CTS
+ * pin is high.
+ * This mode is not activated if CTS pin is a GPIO
+ * because in this case, the transmitter is always
+ * disabled (there must be an internal pull-up
+ * responsible for this behaviour).
+ * If the RTS pin is a GPIO, the controller won't be
+ * able to drive it according to the FIFO thresholds,
+ * but it will be handled by the driver.
+ */
mode |= ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * For platforms without FIFO, the flow control is
+ * handled by the driver.
+ */
+ mode |= ATMEL_US_USMODE_NORMAL;
}
} else {
/* RS232 without hadware handshake */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/tty-serial-at91-fix-hardware-handshake-on-atmel-platforms.patch
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